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Wed 11 Nov 2009US diplomats' visit will test Obama's new policy on Burma
THE OBAMA administration’s new policy of engagement with Burma faces its first test as two senior diplomats begin its highest-level visit to the military dictatorship for more than a decade.
Kurt Campbell, the US assistant secretary of state for east Asian affairs, and his deputy, Scot Marciel, arrived in Burma yesterday for meetings with senior junta officials. They will also meet imprisoned pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, who was sentenced to a further 18 months’ house arrest in August after being found guilty of harbouring an American intruder at her home in May.
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